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Autosomal recessive forms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Current neurology and neuroscience reports - 1 Sept 2004
Vallat J M, Grid D, Magdelaine C, Sturtz F, Tazir M
Abstract excerpt
In some countries with a high prevalence of consanguineous marriages, autosomal recessive inheritance is likely to account for the great majority of all forms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. As with the dominant forms, it is usual to differentiate the demyelinating forms (autosomal recessive -CMT1 or AR-CMT4) from the axonal forms (AR-CMT2). Genetic analysis of large families with recessive transmission has...
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